Science & Society

Pope Benedict XVI: Thanks For Supporting Science

As American culture becomes more polarized, with various constituencies aligning themselves on left-right graphs, religious groups are not going to win with a subset of people, even among rational scientists who should be immune from motivated reasoning. I ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 27 2013 - 3:44pm

Michael Shermer, Chris Mooney and Mark Lynas Discuss Science Left Behind

On TVO's The Agenda with Steve Paikin, yesterday's topic was "The Anti-Science Left" and it starts off with a quote from my book with Dr. Alex Berezow, called "Science Left Behind", about the feel-good fallacies that anti-scie ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Feb 28 2013 - 6:52pm

"Move Along, Nothing To See Here"

I recently read an opinion piece that suggests that concerns about human population growth are grossly overstated and that nothing of consequence is going to occur. Consequently, no serious demographer believes that human population growth resembles cancer ...

Blog Post - Gerhard Adam - Mar 7 2013 - 9:02pm

Abortion As Violence Against Women

Scientists met this week in New York to discuss recent scientific evidence regarding abortion as a form of growing violence against women and girls. Indiscriminate practice of abortion is correlated with coercion, a history of sexual abuse, violence durin ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 10 2013 - 8:57pm

Social Status Not Linked To Longer Life

People with more money may live longer, if not better, than poor people but attempts to link high socioeconomic status to better health and lower mortality have been ineffective because it's unclear whether the association has more to do with access ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 11 2013 - 1:56pm

Organized Religion In America Continues Its Decline- 20 Percent Have No Preference

As Roman Catholics cardinals conclave to pick a new Pope, they should be thinking about a problem that is becoming more apparent- in the developed world, all organized religion continues to decline. Religious affiliation in the US only began to be tracked ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 13 2013 - 9:44am

'Daughter Aversion' Linked To Contraception Use In Nepal

Poverty and under-education dampen contraception use in Nepal but another factor may be more intractable: Deeply held cultural preferences for sons over daughters. The cross-sectional study was based on data from the 2011 Nepal Demographic and Health Surv ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 14 2013 - 4:38pm

Stop Outsourcing Research

It is time that we in the US stop outsourcing research. By this, I refer to the overwhelming dependence we have on research talent brought here from overseas. This is true in the universities in all the physical sciences and engineering. It is increasingly ...

Blog Post - Haym Benaroya - Mar 19 2013 - 4:53pm

Hunters Criticized In Africa

Hunting in Africa has halved the number of primates, according to estimates, but that is not the extend of the problem. Primates help with dispersal of seed and the reduction in primates has led to a reduction in the numbers of fruit trees, say biologists ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 22 2013 - 10:56am

Congress Knows That Science Is Important

On Wednesday, March 19th, a group of researchers organized by the Society for Neuroscience descended on Capitol Hill to let Congress know how important it was to reverse the budget cuts inflicted by the sequester and increase funding to the NIH and NSF. B ...

Article - David Sloan - Mar 22 2013 - 11:15am